{"id":1508,"date":"2007-03-06T18:39:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T18:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2007-03-06T18:39:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T18:39:53","slug":"geography_lesso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"Geography Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A map of the world hangs in my office and I glance at it from time to time. It isn&#8217;t anything special. It&#8217;s great for finding where exactly Azerbaijan is, but it doesn&#8217;t give you any sense of the the dynamics that affect the inhabitants of our planet. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk\/worldmapper\/index.html\">Worldmapper<\/a> project is a fascinating initiative to convert the standard world map into graphical depictions of human activity. The results are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk\/worldmapper\/display.php?selected=288\">often<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk\/worldmapper\/display.php?selected=279\">sobering<\/a>. I first encountered these maps in the pages of <i>The Atlantic<\/i>, but they seem to be one of the emerging memes on the internets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A map of the world hangs in my office and I glance at it from time to time. It isn&#8217;t anything special. It&#8217;s great for finding where exactly Azerbaijan is, but it doesn&#8217;t give you any sense of the the dynamics that affect the inhabitants of our planet. The Worldmapper project is a fascinating initiative <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1508' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ok","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}